bingerama

Up to episode 17 now and am well and truly hooked. This is one of the few anime I’m watching that actually has a pretty coherent AND intriguing plot; maybe I’m just watching all the wrong stuff. Of course, I’m less than halfway through this one so it still has a huge chance of screwing up. I’m a big skeptic on good endings because the more you try to obscure the story the harder it is to make sense of it at the end, and most anime just seems to have a knack of messing up a perfectly legit story. This one seems to have a good handle on things though, so far anyway.

Spoilers inc…

So Light and his annoying girlfriend have just got released from prison and all looks fine and dandy, except the Death Note is now in the hands of an evil corporation that will use it to make lots of money. Well and good, but I don’t get (I’m not very good at making connections so enlighten me if you will):

1) How did L get so sure that Light was Kira, just cos he thinks Kira and Kira 2 have met? There were plenty of other people in Aoyama on the 22nd, why him?

2) How did L figure out that Misa was Kira 2? Was it the hair and stuff he was looking at? Isn’t that kinda expecting the viewer to make a huge assumption, or am I just thick?

3) Why is Light such a good guy all of a sudden? Sure he doesn’t remember killing anyone and stuff, but wasn’t he a bastard to begin with? I don’t see how changing your memories of the last few months could change your fundamental personality. Or could it still be an act?? *gasp* Of course we don’t know the exact details behind the deal with Rem, so it really could be anything….

BTW isn’t that an excellent picture of Ryuk and his WTF expression?

This entry was posted on Monday, January 7th, 2008 at 1:27 am and is filed under Death Note. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.